Show washington snapshots by james preston preiton who owes who and liow how much Is thy the theme of a little game being played between the ale white house and it is a 11 friendly game no ono one will get shot over a division of thi the stakes ta both sides know the ruil ruila A pretty well fur for a game of thin kind Is played evvey every yen year when it becomes Lecou ies necessary to map mall out a new budget for the federal government thu the only winner in the game to date is the farmer li amer lie already has the money and ana probably has spent it it now the white house is trying to move its chess cheas men over the fiscal checker board to show that congress gave this money to the farmer and made no plans fur for repaying the treasury congress has issued no official statement but it is known that some members of congress fell th that atthe the farmer was waa entitled td ills his sharo share of the federal money just the same as the city relief relle ferm era boiled down the situation Is this the federal debt Is billions under present law 45 billions is the maximum the federal government can borrow federal spending exceeds federal income by by such a proportion that this will make the ad adminta mints operate on a close margin and in ili addition to last years expenses the administration wants another half billion for military prepared lim the administration claims that in ili the last two years congress voted No in ili benefit pay inputs now the administration says congress Con giess shall repay ahll thi it money ioney that will mean new low t axe and congress does docs not wish new taxes in an all election year it if the president dmit insists that congress vote tills this money the it kg 4 gators have two ways out they call approve secretary wallaces certificate plan which Is the 1030 name fur fui pi processing taxes or it can vote ulo it 11 national defense tax note thu the propped certificate plans work uil this way raim farm ers eiss who liu comply with acreage al lol loti menta would receive certificates lui for the difference between the market mailet price and parity prices processors then would be 6 r e bulit Itil red d to purchase certificates along wath wi ali the purchase pui chase of farm commodities presumably this extra cost to the processor pio cessor would be passed along to the consumer but no mutter matter by what name a tax is known it means taking money out oi of pocket and even in a na nation now accustomed to talking of billions the procedure Is not painless U S navy officers are among the closest observers of the european war at present the navy lias has a huge new ship construction program underway before completing this program it wishes to make sure that there Is no new nelt devell development in naval warfare that would make this program out of date for this reason work has haa been held up deliberately on oa the ton cruisers cleveland and columbia the navy was waiting to see how effective the ton german pocket battleships would prove what hap to ito the admiral graf spee Is a partial answer much Is being printed those these days daya about breaking the british blockade naval experts say this may bo be done but in the same breath add that lu in centuries only one man was ever able to win out in ili the end against british sea or the biame of tills this one man mail was george washington it has haa been announced that since the beginning of the present administration in washington no fewer than 2358 executive orders have been issued from the white house these range from orders creating ambassadorships ambassador ships to others changing the date for observance of thanksgiving upon learning of the 2358 figure one washington writer commented the one order a lot of ux us would like to hear bear Is As you were I 1 |